PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
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The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards is an annual writing competition founded in 2003 with the stated mission to discover and promote up-and-coming screenwriters from around the world. The contest is judged by
Hollywood producers, development executives and representatives who are looking for new projects and new clients. Each year in October, they present 31 awards and more than $50,000 in cash and prizes to the scripts they think are the most creative, well-written, and marketable. Entries are categorized by genre, with winners in each of the 10 sub-competitions vying for a Grand Prize.
After winning the PAGE Awards competition, many screenwriters have signed with agents and managers, obtained TV writing assignments, signed option agreements on their scripts and/or had their films produced.
Some of the PAGE winners who have gone on to build careers in the film and television industry:
Bill Dubuque: Ozark, The Accountant
Steven Canals: Pose, Dead of Summer
Brooke Roberts: The Flash, NCIS: New Orleans
John Scott 3: Maggie, Parable X
Jim Cliffe & Melodie Krieger: Donovan's Echo
Marc Conklin: Memorial Day
Laurie Weltz: About Scout, The Night Swimmer
Janet Lin: Bones, The Night Shift
Sang Kyu Kim: 24: Live Another Day, The Walking Dead
VJ Boyd: Justified, The Player
Davah Avena: Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, Grand Hotel
Simeon Goulden: Spy, Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Grand Prize Winners
2025: The New Boyfriend by Zach Roe
2024: Mal by Jack Azadi
2023: The Stratford Wife by Sarah E. Sinclair
2022: Thirstygirl by Alexandra Qin
2021: iCon by A. J. Bermudez
2020: Mother Wild by Claire Tailyour
2019: Odyssey by Michael Kogge
2018: Tundra Kill by Kevin Bachar
2017: Jane by Kendell Courtney Klein
2016: Changelings by Diane Hanks
2015: Immaculate by Gareth Smith
2014: Carnival by Matias Caruso
2013: Leavenworth by Brooke Roberts
2012: The Unraveling by Tobin Addington
2011: Escape by Pat White
2010: Supercat! by R. Scott Shields
2009: Progeny by Mehul Desai
2008: Honor Bound by Mike Amato
2007: Solomon's Whale by John Arends
2006: Warmonger, Inc.
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